[bcbirdclub] Fwd: Hemlock wooly adelgids take a hit this winter
- From: roger mayhorn <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Buchanan County Bird Club <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:35:33 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Terry Bronson" <bronsonwv@xxxxxxxxx>
To: WV-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 3:35:28 PM
Subject: Hemlock wooly adelgids take a hit this winter
Good news from our friends in Pennsylvania posted on that state's list
serv today. Hopefully this will give West Virginia hemlocks a reprieve
and help the birds that nest in them:
Subject: Woolly Adelgid and the 2013-2014 Winter
Date: Wed Apr 2 2014 9:11 am
From: dsg4 AT psu.edu
Those in the State College Bird Club may have attended the talk given
by Kelli Hoover, Professor of Entomology at Penn State.
When she came to my office this morning to talk about another project,
she said "Good News! This winter has decimated the Woolly Adelgid in
PA!"
In fact for her project that requires growing beetles that are
predators for the adelgid, they have had to ship woollys from the
south.
She said it will take several years for them to re-establish themselves here.
So maybe our hemlocks have earned a respite and this will give
researchers a chance to annihilate them.
Deb
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409-136-3
Deborah S. Grove, Ph.D.
Director of Genetic Analysis
Genomics Core Facility
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Penn State University
408 Chandlee Building
University Park PA 16802
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Terry Bronson
Morgantown, WV
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